Welcome to .txtLAB, a laboratory for cultural analytics at McGill University directed by Andrew Piper. We explore the use of computational and quantitative approaches towards understanding literature and culture in both the past and present. Our aim is to engage in critical and creative uses of the tools of network science, machine learning, or image processing to think about language, literature, and culture at both large and small scale.

Another New Course! Graduate Seminar in “Cultural Analytics” offered this semester

Pleased to announce LLCU 609, “Cultural Analytics: The Computational Study of Culture.” It offers an overview of the field, with an emphasis on text analysis, stylistics, sentiment analysis, topic modelling, social network analysis and visual culture. So far we have eight different disciplines represented in a class of about 18 students. Nice to see how interdisciplinary this work is.